Music I’m Listening To


   Not to be confused with the much more recent heavy metal rock band from Sweden of the same name, this earlier version who also called themselves The Haunted was a garage band from Montréal, Québec, Canada. The LP below (re-released on CD) played in its entirety, was their only studio album, but there were three compilation albums released later on, in 1983 (2) and 1995.


   Puss n Boots is an alternative country band from Brooklyn NY. Members are Norah Jones, Sasha Dobson and Catherine Popper.

    From the online SingOut website:

    “People Get Ready” continues to cross, or defy, genre in the 52 years since its creation. It remains both enormously popular and enormously accessible to a wide range of artists. Rolling Stone named it as the 24th greatest song of all time. The Rise Again songbook places “People Get Ready” in its “Gospel” section, but also footnotes it in the “Freedom” section. Along the way, it has fit into soul, gospel, jazz, reggae, country (gospel), blues, rock, and pop genres.

From Wikipedia, “‘The Sheltering Sky’ is named after and partially inspired by the 1949 novel of the same name by Paul Bowles.”

Singer songwriter Sean Della Croce is being interviewed on WWUH, a local college radio station, right now:

There are musical performances so unique as to be one of a kind. Take this one, for example:



GSO = Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.

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